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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRI CHARLES CIIASLES, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

IRONING, FINISHING, AND DRYING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,131, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed October 9, 1890- Serial No 367,477. (No model.) Patented in France March 14, 1890,11'0. 204,348, and in England Aprilll, 1890, No. 5,526.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRI CHARLES CHASLES, of the city of Paris, France, have invented an Improvement in Ironing, Finishing, and Drying Machines, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in France for fifteen years, dated March 14, 1890, No. 204:,348, and in England for fourteen years, dated April 11, 1890, No. 5,526,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in machines for ironing, finishing, or drying linen fabrics, paper, to. These machines usually consist of a polished heated surface which is in direct contact with one side of the fabric, the other side of the fabric being pressed against a bed or counterpart clothed or faced with felt, swan-skin, cloth, or other material. This clothing has the objection that it quickly loses its elasticity and porosity, and consequently becomes hard and reduced in thickness. In the case of swan-skin wrapped around a cylinder there is consequently a diminution in diameter, which causes it to bear imperfectly upon the concave ironingsurface, and, moreover, at the joint there is a ridge or extra thickness which puts the cylinder out of true and renders the action of the machine imperfect; lastly, this clothing absorbs a great part of the Vapor given off by the moistened fabric during its passage through the machine, so that the operation becomes defective.

To obviate the above objections, the invention consists in the combination, with the cylinder and with the heating body,'of a metallic or other brush-like clothing, preferably such as the card-clothing used in machines for carding cotton.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the application of the present invention to a special form of machine, in which Figure l is a side view, partly in section, and Fig. 2 a cross'section, 0f the machine.

Around the cylinder A of, the machine I wind, preferably in spiral form, a strip or fillet CL of card-clothing having teeth made of steel, tinned iron, brass, orother wire or other material of greater or less length and either straight or bent, as shown. If, for example, card-clothing having bent teeth be used, the cylinder would rotate in the opposite direction to that in which it would run if used for carding-thatis to say, the rotation of the cylinder would tend to lay the teeth and not to raise them. In this mannerIobtain aresilient non-absorbent clothing, whereby the operation of ironing or finishing can be carried on continuously.

In some cases it is preferred to interpose between the card-clothing and the fabric to be ironed a sheet of linen or other fabric, in order to prevent the points of the card-teeth from coming in frictional contact with the heated metallic ironing-surface B, as well as to insure the more perfect action of the eX- hauster. It is also preferred to provide stoprings 1), formed by winding a narrow strip of felt around the cylinder several times upon itself at the ends of the card-clothing in order to prevent access of air thereat.

I claim The combination, with the cylinder A and heater B of an ironing, finishing, or drying machine, of the brush clothing a, applied around said cylinder, substantially as and for the purpose described.

The foregoing specification of my improvement in ironing, finishing, and drying machines signed by me this 24th day of Septemtem, 1890.

HENRI CHARLES CHASLES.

Witnesses:

R. M. HOOPER, ALBERT MOREAU. 

